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Sounds like you want source language-to-source language translation memory...
What do you author in? Something like SDL's Author Assistant would be
right up your alley.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Craig Haiss <craighaiss -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend tools that would flag similar paragraphs in a large documentation set? The goal is to re-use this content via XML and reduce the overall word count.
>
> The technical side of re-use isn't the issue; it's finding the redundant content at a granular level.
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> Author-IT eXtend appears to show fuzzy content matches as you are typing new content, but I don't see any way to analyze a bunch of existing content for duplication.
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> What I'm looking for is a tool that would analyze the whole doc set and produce a report of content chunks that are good candidates for re-use.
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